Audio Column by Sukey Howard

Doyle, wonderful writer and reader, winner of the prestigious Booker Prize (the only Irish novelist ever to do so), portrayer of the gritty underside of urban life in Ireland today, has turned the historical clock back to the first two decades of this century in A Star Called Henry (6 hours), the first of a promised, promising trilogy. Henry, born in 1901, goes from barefoot street urchin to...